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ARAGON, Louis (translator) -- Francesco PETRARCA (1304-1374). Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque avec une eau-forte de Picasso et les explications du traducteur, Paris: à la Fontaine de Vaucluse, 1947.
4° (329 x 248mm.), one etched and aquatint plate by Pablo Picasso, extra-illustrated with three leaves of manuscript by Aragon (drafts of the final translations) unbound in cellophane sleeves, the text with extensive manuscript additions by Aragon, including translations of six additional poems, contemporary cream morocco, spine lettered in red, original upper wrapper bound in (spine and extremities slightly discoloured, spine also lightly scuffed).
LIMITED TO 110 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 2 OF 100 COPIES each with a different proverb in Aragon's hand, this copy inscribed: "2 - C'est l'amour qui fait les fronts pâles ( ...et le nombre 2 est celui de l'amour)." As the translator notes on the half title, this is a unique copy containing "cinq poèmes du traducteur dont il n'existe pas d'autre copie et un sonnet italien d'Etienne Colonna... Il y a été joint trois feuillets manuscrits des brouillons du traducteur pour les cinq sonnets, qui sont de 1943 et 1945." Aragon prepared the translations as a homage to Elsa Triolet, the Russian writer he met in 1928, and who changed his life significantly. While there is no direct indication for whom this copy was prepared, one may speculate that it was Aragon's presentation copy to his muse, Elsa Triolet. Cramer 47.
4° (329 x 248mm.), one etched and aquatint plate by Pablo Picasso, extra-illustrated with three leaves of manuscript by Aragon (drafts of the final translations) unbound in cellophane sleeves, the text with extensive manuscript additions by Aragon, including translations of six additional poems, contemporary cream morocco, spine lettered in red, original upper wrapper bound in (spine and extremities slightly discoloured, spine also lightly scuffed).
LIMITED TO 110 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 2 OF 100 COPIES each with a different proverb in Aragon's hand, this copy inscribed: "2 - C'est l'amour qui fait les fronts pâles ( ...et le nombre 2 est celui de l'amour)." As the translator notes on the half title, this is a unique copy containing "cinq poèmes du traducteur dont il n'existe pas d'autre copie et un sonnet italien d'Etienne Colonna... Il y a été joint trois feuillets manuscrits des brouillons du traducteur pour les cinq sonnets, qui sont de 1943 et 1945." Aragon prepared the translations as a homage to Elsa Triolet, the Russian writer he met in 1928, and who changed his life significantly. While there is no direct indication for whom this copy was prepared, one may speculate that it was Aragon's presentation copy to his muse, Elsa Triolet. Cramer 47.
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